Have you ever felt to have a optimal living? Where you can understand how to be a happy being and trying to achieve an aim called life. Paul Coehlo has given a narrative about how to self-actualize; in terms of developing passion, compassion, friendships, accepting failures, hard work, intuition and indulgence, etc.
Tetsuya, famous for his talent of archery tells about how to learn archery to a boy who comes in search for him. Tetsuya talks about every single thing about archery and how it can be applied to the life as whole.
We all need friends, they are like second family to us. So while trying to befriend somebody, see for people who can help us go up the ladder rather down. People who share same interests and enthusiasm as us, and surrounding ourselves with the people who are not afraid to take risks, do not hesitate to accept their failures and are ready to work on forward.
Remember feeling a sudden rigidity during winter mornings. It irritates right? So basically unless we want ourselves to be completely rigid, being flexible or in other words being adaptive, adaptive to the surroundings and with oneself is important. Its like we being pre-programmed for looking only black and white and no shades between. Being adaptive means knowing when to work hard and when to take a meaningful break. Cause sometimes a break is needed to understand what are we doing is really worth it and going in the direction intended. It also emphasizes that instead of taking failures to heart it is better to intake those as valuable experiences.
It is obvious that when failures hit us we tend to blame it external issues and sometimes hold responsible the thing itself that we are chasing saying that it is impossible and how unfair it is…, etc. So wait and try to understand how and what that goal is, how it is influenced by other factors and how we can strategize to make it available or rather achievable. And try to remind yourself when failure hits, that you have worked hard enough and have shown consistent patience. This helps your journey bearable.
While facing failures it is easy to loose our peace and also our confidence but trying not to forget all our efforts and hard work we did in order to reach where we are right now helps to maintain our persistent patience.
Intentions matter. Good intentions help you get through tough times and also makes it easy for us to remain poised throughout the journey. It is always best to keep our intentions precise and clear.
Sometimes it’s ok to take things a little slow or even a meaningful rest is important so it will help us relax and also helps to understand what to do next. Butto understand the importance of time is crucial. We don’t have forever. Our time is limited so it’s better to make the most of it.
Today we may feel very happy and tomorrow we may not. Life is not always sunshine. Dark clouds can cover your sky too. So life is a mixture but just because today’s not our day doesn’t mean that it will be the same. And our attitude matters a lot. The way we look at things, at others and also at ourself is significant.
Once we have understood to appreciate these simple things it becomes a little bit easier as we know what type of outlook to have in order to live happily.
Simplify things 